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Robot Ventures leads $5.2 million seed round for Sprinter, a ‘solving-as-a-service’ startup founded by Ethereum OGs
Sprinter is a crosschain “solving-as-a-service” infrastructure startup that provides access to collateral-free cr…
The Daily: Google to integrate Polymarket and Kalshi data in search results, JPMorgan sees bitcoin reaching $170,000, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Robinhood cautious on adopting corporate bitcoin treasury: ‘Is it the best use of our capital?’
Robinhood’s crypto revenue rose 300% to $268 million in the third quarter, helping drive higher overall revenues of…
Central Bank of Ireland fines Coinbase Europe $25 million for breaching anti-money laundering monitoring obligations
The bank said more than 30 million transactions were not properly monitored, which led to 2,708 late suspicious trans…
Prediction markets are evolving into broader information trading venues: Bernstein
Kalshi anchor partner Robinhood processed $2.5 billion in prediction-market volume in October — implying a $300 mil…
Balancer identifies rounding error as root cause of multi-chain DeFi exploit
Balancer’s preliminary report says a rounding flaw in swap logic caused the recent exploit, with recovery efforts u…
Robinhood’s Q3 trading revenue jumps 129% YoY, ‘primarily driven by cryptocurrency revenue’
Robinhood's crypto revenue was up over 300% in Q3 to $268 million, helping to drive higher overall revenues of $1.27 …
The Daily: Monad sets mainnet and airdrop for Nov. 24, Ripple raises $500M, Bitcoin’s ‘IPO moment,’ and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Paradigm leads $6 million seed round for Harmonic, aiming to help Solana reach Nasdaq speed
“Harmonic brings Solana closer to being the onchain Nasdaq,” Harmonic co-founder Jakob Povšič told The Block.
Gemini preparing to launch prediction market contracts: Bloomberg
In May, the exchange filed to launch a derivatives exchange, which may be used for prediction markets trading.
Appeals court judges question Sam Bankman-Fried’s claims over FTX solvency
Arguments made by former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyer in a bid to get a new trial may not have been convincing,…
The Daily: Stream Finance external fund manager discloses $93 million loss, Sequans dumps nearly a third of its bitcoin holdings, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman Fried returns to court seeking new trial after FTX fraud conviction
Jailed former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is back in court as he looks to get a redo after being found guilty on multip…
Stablecoin-enabled payments infrastructure platform Zynk raises $5 million from Coinbase Ventures and others
Zynk raised $5 million in a seed round led by Hivemind Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, among others.
Analysts map $285M in potential exposure across DeFi after Stream Finance’s $93M loss
DeFi analysts claim there may be over $285 million in cross-protocol exposure tied to Stream Finance's $93 million loss.
US prosecutors seek five-year prison terms for Samourai Wallet founders
Prosecutors alleged that Rodriguez and Lonergan operated a service that helped launder at least $237 million in crimi…
Berachain distributes hard fork binary to address Balancer V2 exploit
Validators halted the network on Monday as the exploit on Balancer V2 exposed vulnerabilities in Berachain's native d…
Stream Finance halts withdrawals and deposits after $93 million loss disclosed
Stream Finance said an external fund manager disclosed a $93 million loss in its fund assets on Monday, and it is inv…
FTX withdraws motion seeking to limit repayments in China, Russia and other restricted jurisdictions
Meanwhile, Sam Bankman-Fried, the convicted founder of FTX, is scheduled to appear at an appeal hearing in New York o…
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest buys $12 million worth of Bullish shares
Bullish, a crypto exchange backed by Peter Thiel, launched spot trading in the US last month after obtaining a key Ne…
Wintermute’s Evgeny Gaevoy says the market maker isn’t suing Binance and ‘never had plans to’
Evgeny Gaevoy said Wintermute will not sue Binance over losses incurred during the largest crypto liquidation event o…
FTSE Russell taps Chainlink to bring Russell 1000 and other index data onchain
The tie-up will bring data for major global indices like the Russell 1000, Russell 2000, Russell 3000, and other FTSE…
The Daily: Balancer hit by $128 million exploit, Hong Kong opens global liquidity access for local crypto exchanges, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Paradigm leads $7.6 million seed funding round for perp DEX aggregator Liquid
Liquid, a crypto perp DEX aggregator, has raised $7.6 million in seed funding from investors including Paradigm and G…
Kraken unlocks crypto collateral for derivatives across the EU
Kraken will now allow traders to post crypto collateral in the European Union via its MiFID-regulated derivatives pla…
How XRP can provide $5 billion daily ‘working capital’ for currency exchanges
XRP can serve as short-term working capital for currency exchanges, as transactions typically take only a few minutes…
Berachain halts network to conduct emergency hard fork amid $128 million Balancer exploit
Berachain has halted its network to perform an emergency hard fork after a Balancer exploit, with losses topping $128…
DeFi protocol Balancer potentially exploited as onchain data shows millions in outflows
DeFi protocol Balancer appears to have been exploited, with over $70 million in ether derivatives moved out of its va…
DEX volume hits all-time high in October as traders reposition funds
Decentralized exchange trading volume soared to a record $613.3 billion in October, up from around $500 billion in Se…
The quantum computing threat Bitcoin can’t ignore
Quantum computing is no longer just science fiction or the stuff of cypherpunk paranoia; it’s officially a front-pa…